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Monday, 6 June 2016

The return of steam engines

A weakness of the steam engine model
was that all the power went through 1 set of wheels. So we had wheel
slip issue s- and had to employ people to walk around tapping the
wheels: this showed if there was a potentially fatal crack in the
forging.

So we distribute the power – having
one power car for every 4 carriages. We link them all up
electrically – so if 1 power car fails, it will not matter.

Another weakness was discharging the
steam from the chimney – throwing away 90% of the heat. Modern
steam trains take off 2% of the power to run a Carnot heat pump.

This condenses the steam to 90oC water
– allowing the water to be recycled. And recovering 85% of the 90%
- 77.55 of the system energy.

Each power car has 2 0.5x2cm steam
plasma tubes at 4 atmospheres. This gives some measure of
redundancy.

So we get 5.8 MW of heat – 580 kW of
electricity. A steam engine is only 10% efficient, so the train only
developed 750 kW in total.

So it is looking like we will have too
much power – we need to build one and size the kit.

So Each power car will develop 750 kW
of power – with no CO2 of toxic radioactive waste.

1 H++e- ->n0 the Hs and electrons
form neutrons

2 16O2++4n0 ->8H++6e1 the oxygen
ions carry a positive charge in the plasma

3 H++rn0 ->Er3+L+X-ray

The same end products as the steam
cycle – which does Molecular Nuclear Fusion: which is why a working
steam cycle releases X-rays, produces He ions and massive heat

So we replace all the diesel electrics
with stem electric – which out perform electric trains, but draw no
mains current.